This word’s definition comes from Wordsmith.org, via Moke.
jentacular (jen-TAK-yuh-luhr) (adjective) Relating to breakfast
Now for some jentacular subject matter.
The Health Care Blog unhappily reports on a new Hardees breakfast burrito that fits a half a day’s calories (920) and all of your daily fat and sodium allowances into one tortilla. (It’s still a better option than the Hardees salad, which has 1,100 calories.)
And here’s some jentacular etymology from Patricia T. O’Conner: “The word “breakfast,” by the way, dates from 1463. It refers to the meal that we eat to “break” our overnight “fast.” That reminds me of a poem by Shelley that compares breakfasts “professional and critical” to dinners “convivial and political.”
I’d say the Hardees burrito fails both of Shelly’s breakfast criteria.
And lastly, we have a headline from the Onion that explains a lot:
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